ABSTRACT
In joining the BBC, Keller was entering an organization which has spent most of its short existence engulfed in continual change and self-examination, despite enjoying a position of security and public esteem unparalleled in an institution so young. The turning-point, as he himself identified it, was the BBC's publication of its 1969 policy document Broadcasting in the Seventies and the unprecedented wave of internal protest which that provoked. The central issues which concerned Keller about Broadcasting in the Seventies were the loss of the Third Programme and the move towards 'generic' broadcasting. Third Programme was born out of that extraordinary period of idealism, altruism and national solidarity which followed the Second World War. As Newby took up his duties as Controller, Third Programme, William Glock was invited to lunch by the Controller of Music, Richard Howgill, whom Glock had asked for support in his candidature for the directorship of the Guildhall School of Music.
